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Perkins, Worcester, are married at bride's home, with 150 attending. They will live in Orange, N. J. The new Russell School, formally presented to the city through Mayor Hawkins. will accommodate 400 pupils.

Ivan Goldstein beats Henry S. Thomas In mile bicycle race at the fair growlds. 4 Mrs. Levitt Mosher, 68, dies suddenly In Chatham, N. where eh is visiting.

25 Years Age Sixty former members of 301st Ambulance Company have shore dinner at the Wendell and elect Dr. M. H. Walker Jr, president. president.

Marquis Childs IN WASH GTONIn. every session a on tain number of screwball bills get durepeA Into the congressional hopper. These are often measures put In as a gesture to pacify some organization or pressure group, wits no expectation that they will ever be seritilis ly considered. At first glance, a proposal that died the 79th Congress has the look' of a whimsy. But In the fantastic time In whh we art living.

this proposal nay befora op long come to seem merely There is immediate need a a much longer period of rest and supervised care for patients. And, of course, there is the ulti- mate need to rainimize its damaging effects and, hopefully, to find and nullify its cause. A splendid but little-known pioneering job has been done by the St. Francis Sanatorium for Cardiac Children outside New York City, at Roslyn, Long Island. This is apparently the only hospital in the country which has devoted itself to clinical research of the disease and to providing the prolonged bed-rest which is vitally necessary if the patient is to survive into an adult life of restricted activity, which is the best he can hope for.

Now that Johns Hopkins has added its facilities to those already engaged in the fight against this widespread and deadly affliction, it is to be hoped that, when and if a concerted national campaign is organized, the bublic will respond with the same, will and generosity that has aided battle I Telephostat 7311 (Editorial aod Business) Telaphonot 7317 (Cirealatioa Department) Business Ogle Sours: II AM to PM azeept Saturday afternoons sod diundays Fee sesiestriptietei wed clanged advertising rotas opt Classified Other row on toque. Ilie Associated Pleas Is entstisil immersed, te tbe me tot sepubiloation et aU DWS dispatches ereditot It sic not lliortriee stedlled In this paper and local -seers et SOODULD00111 engin publislied bassist. OHO sSMes a esoolftseSs asSImillsoOsSssmss. s. 417 1 C.0,49" Or.

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14 Myron Marvin, former Pitts-'field High athlete, son ot Mr, and Mn. Peter Marvin, buys large nail plant in Rio -de Janeiro, Brakl. Former U. S. Senator Chauncey M.

Depew, bale and hearty at 87, speaking before tha.Park Club, says that current conditions ars better than after the Civil War. Pioneer beats Bay State, 21 to 1. in Dalton Twilight League as Murray allows three riLtroind fans 13. le Tears Age The 1940 election will decide America's fate, George Sokol-sky, writor and lecturer, tells Pittsileld service club members at Wendell luncheon. Atty.

Francis I. Quirico is 'named preMdent of the newly formed Italian-American Democratic Oub at meeting in his office. Sally 11- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Car.

ton sessions, breaks arm in fall from tree Shadowbrook honors Rev. F. White, 50 years 'a, Jesuit A four-foot-high presented by N. A. and baked by Justht Au bry is a feature.

-7" ell limmohilli Matter of Fact Editortotst medical science so notably in its 1 against another Senator La Follette Tries To childhood scourge. Rejoin! the Republican Party CIO Union Declares War '1 TodaY's Wisconsin Primary is Important On the Communists In that it will disclose the strength of Sena- The announced intention of Harry Aor Robert La Follette in his home state international vice-president of the and settle the question' as to whether he can 'regain his once influential position in United Electrical Workers' of (matins munists from is the Republican state organitation. To that organization at tional convention at Milwaukee on end he has helped dissolve the Progressive Party which has been powerful in Wiscon- ber 9' Presages' a livelY time Mr in, ever sinee the 1924 election when the aeCusing the Communists of attei senator's father, running for president with to make the union a vehicle for '1adv Burton K. Wheeler as running mate, won the ftweigrl PolioY -Pt the Soviet I described the action of his group as its 13 electoral votes, e' On balance, Mi. 'La Follette deserves 'to to prvent the ITEW from "going to i be received beck into the GOP fold.

The destruction as a front for the An WIJKOnSilt-Itepublican machine from all in- Cnramtiniat There is dications, is infected by the same dull no doubt that the Corm Bourbon stuffiness that afflicts it in Ohio see the American labor unions all 014 and other states, including portions of our lest instrument, or paralyzing the ec Of Russia's only great rival in perwe own dear Massachusettc It badly needs leaders like La Follette to counterbalance the- 'aids developed to assist An 1 Wiley. Me erstwhile Progressive is worlcers to stbcure better wages and fearless, honest as the day is and on ing constitions and to prevent till ploitation by the great corporaticc domestic affairs always has his face toward the light He is reputed to know more Coranumists see only. as implements about workings of Congress and of the t'oPtion- 'The right to strike al federal government thanl any man living; inhibition that 'luny people feel crossing picket lines they consider It was for this reason that upon the death I of Senator Maloney, one of the original means for improving conditions paralyzing ind sponsors, La Follette was assigned the duty ou ustry and transpol of drawing up, with Congressman Monro. The Sincere labor unionist while ney, the congressional reform bill, imPrOYing the statue of ishor is that the American systern shall worl wise, it was his generalship that got it Communists, on 4 the Senate with so little trouble the other hand, are that it shall not Mr. Block's testir and with so nearly a who sldn most of excisions wer the result House added to othek evidence showing Communists hold key positions unions and are eternally working fc There is doubt that be as his defects.

has inherited his father's narrow and Pmer and influence' yokelism on foreign affairs arid has The question naturally arises has been and is now one'of the most violent and Oa at CP' members in the 1 isolationists in Congress. Like- are a Lew' 4) un anY wtant wise he hat the intolerance of dissent and vari1 unions are held by Comr the habit of attributing discreditable mo- This lactinclirles many People to that the number of active- party rr jives to thctse who disagree with him that so characteristic of the wliherain mind. tar exceeds the 50,000 to and, Stassen shauld be allies, for both CPA II atIPPIed cmPrile' The reason, for the dispropol them represent the progressive element. of the Midwest as opposed to, the element POW" of the cc'mmulliate In certain by the McCormicks and is not far to seek. Anyone I organizational 'experience kna La Follette's newspaper his, been an)? medical science so notably in its against another childhood scourge.

On the Comanunists The announced intention of Harry international vice-president of the United Electrical Workers, of ousting from his organization at convention at Milwaukee on 9, presages' a lively time. Mr. in aCCusing the CoMmtmists of to make the union a vehicle for the foreign policy -pt the Soviet described the action of his group as to twevent the UEW from "going to destruction as a front for the Communist There is no doubt that the See the American labor unions as the lest instrument, for paralyzing the of Russia's only great rival in power. the 'aids developed to assist workers to secure better wages and Ins corlitions, and to prevent ploitation by the great corporations, Communists see only. as implements The right to strike inhibition that so litany people feel crossing picket lines they consider means for improving conditions paralyzing our industry and transportation.

The tincere labor unionist while of improving the status of labor, is that the American systent shall work. Communists, on the other hand, are that it shall not. Mr. Block's testimony added to other evidence showing Communists hold key positions in unions and are eternally working for power and influence. The question naturally arises how, the number of CP.

members in the are so few, so many important various unions are held by This fact inclines many people to that the number 'of active- party far exceeds the 50,000 to CPA is supposed to comprise. The reason, for the disproportionate power of the Communists in'certaln is not far to seek. Anyone any organizational experience knows MOn sense. The resolution Introduced by Represer2k. the James W.

Trimble of Arkansas provind for a government of the United States I. event an atomic bomb should land sqttly on Washington and wipe out the President. VicePresident, all the members of the C444r net, the entire Congress and the Supreme Court. The resolution proposed a corurtitutional amendment to be ratified by theygislatures of three-fourths of the states. Under the proposed amendment.

Irth.e government In Washington were wiped out, the first step would be for the top officers of the Army, Navy and Air Fortes to chooses civilian to act as Interim -This is On the assumption, of course, that The commanders of the three services 'wet survive and be In active conmumd of forces the field. The interim President is to call a meti of the governors of all the states. The governors will then select by a majority vete on. of their number to act as President, and one to act as Vice-President "Those selected by the governors shall Immediately' take office and serve for the uncompleted portion of the terms for which the last elected President and Vice-President were at the site selected by a melociti of the governors." You will be able to pick it up on your television setunless, of course, the radioactive effect of the bomb has knocked out all television and radio. The governor -et Illinois is being sworn in as President of the United States in a deep underground shelter at the capital In Springfield, which, until the war ends In victory and Washington can be restored.

will be the capital of the United States. As seen on the television screen, thelecet of the newly chosen leaders of the carttry are tense and drawn. The words they peak are measured and solemn. This Is the ftrst time that a foreign enemy has carried war to the shores of the United States. And It is war, says the new President of a more awful kind than the world has ever known: war that will mean further fearful sacrifices from the American people.

A hot weather fantasy? Yesbut 11 the atomic armament race goes on, it carrhe come reality. 111. Congressman Trimble says he was reatii.1 the Constitution one night when It pccurred to him that to is made for another government in the event of the destruction of ILI1 the chief officers of the erdsting federal government The framers of the Constitution could hardly have been expected to foresee the age of mass death. They lived In4 simple time when warfare was a matter at individual killing Individual on a chosen laid of battle. Towns were sacked, but only Incidentally and not as a calculated part Of strategy.

Nor could the framers of the Cana have foreseen the great concentration of our economic and political life. That cancer, tration is the direct result of the vast new techniques of powersteam, the interital combustion engine and, now, atomic ilsiket. The power of economic decision is so concentrated In New York, and the political decision In Washington, that IC Is hard to see how a modern war could waged if one center or. the other were Fnr modern war with its Intricate technology. 'necessarily based on a great Industrial complex, requires instant overiall decisions.

Our Industrial concentration a few centers makes this country peculiarly vulnerable to atomic air attack. Anyone who thinks Congressman Trriable Is dreaming up unnecessary trouble should consider the sober fact that a committegi on underground sites named by the Army-Navy Munitions Board Is now surveying nattiral caves and man-made caverns, such as mines, In order to find those adaptable for vital industrial production agil other military purposes." In the first Instance, they would be tifel for the storage of essential machine tepola and critical raw materials. While we are studying wars to hide bur machine might also Ind a sale place to shelter a subb stitute government Lotter Britain T8 tio Utter St TEl TA0311: Great Britain is a tottering nation that has had its heyday. Gone rl the days when mknies and mandates let the old master crack the whip and danced to whatever tuna was played for the master's passing fancy. Great Britain is getting by today on her VIMB and groans and her usual below-the-belt blows at defenseleu peoples, such as the Jews, the Greeks.

the Indiana and whoever else she can pick on without having to ward off any left hooks. We here in the United States fall for her fancy talk and think grand to have one of those titled Sirs" visit us hen. All the way back through our history we And that Great Britain was out for all she could get from us. plut. Well, she got it, $4000000000 this time plus everything she can steal from "UNRRA and lend-lease.

She uses our money' to steal foreign markets that we want and need for our own economy in this country. Sure, they got bombed in England and lost plenty. Well who didn't? Why Is England putting up the big light tor Palestine? To defend the poor Arabs and Jews from each other? No. She rules because she divides the peoples in the country. She puts out false stories to cover up her attempts at trying to corner the vast oil reserves in the Middle East Does she need the Suez Canal to protect the colonies in the Tar East? Poppycock.

By the time she got A meet through to the Far Eut modern air warfare could finish anything started before the English had a chance to open their ever-present umbrella. Why let the British lead us around by the nose, when those poor defenseless Jews from Europe want a place to rest their weary souls and bones and get another start in life. They say no. Just to hang onto any piece of territory that they can and draw the last drop of blood and life from that country. People should write the President of the United States and ask hint to be firm in his demands that the 100,000 Jews be admitted to Palestine at It's a matter of life and death.

end letters will help the President know he is right. GOODMAN. Socialism, Only Escape for British From Dilemma Of Choosing Between Knaves and Communists I lly Joseph Msop the efforts of the British. The reall4311 was sim. ply put by a shrewd English leader, who said: ONDONThere IX many excellent reasons at we are doing is the only bearable es.

why the British 'experiment in democratic cape from the choice which faces most nations soetalism may fail. Mankind is fallible for one in the world nowadays which is the choice be. thing. The men who compose the machinery of tween the knaves and the Communists." the British government are tired after seven years of war. The enormous task of carrying '111; truth, already pointed out in this space.

out a complex Socialist program and directing a is worth asserting again as the conclusion of planned peacetime economy may simply be ton the present necessarily superficial examination much for them. of the British experiment It is a hard truth Then, too, some Isolated cog in the machine for Americans to understand. since America may fall to mesh with its fellows. For example, today is a fortunate island of wealth where the accumulation of working capital for the plenty is still the rule. Elsewhere, however, Socialist experiment depends upon exports.

In over almost the whole surface of the earth, the the first three months of 1945, exports were 32 L. rule is poverty, not plenty. Poor countries caliper cent by volume of the base figure in 1938. In not afford the luxury (which seems to most the same period of 1948, while imports had de- Americans a necessity) of economic as well as dined slightly, exports had risen to 84 per cent political freedom. They must carefully plan by volume of the 1938 total.

To come clout to the use of the available resources to make tripling the export total in one year Is an as them stretch as far as possible. They are like tonishing achievement, but the Socialist plan. poor families, In which the father and mother ners require immense further increases before must calculate the expenditure of every dime austerity can be relaxed. And export figures and nickel, to be sure that the whole family is already show a heavy concentration on metal led. clothed, sheltered and kept warm.

goods, where competition from the United In these countries, there is no question of the States and other nations will be stiffest later on. kind of freedom from government controls which is advocated, for example. by Senator Again, as previously reported in this space, Robert A. Taft That would be like giving $3 Britain faces a coal crisis this winter. Cold apiece to each member of a family of six with a houses, slowdown in factory production and a combined income of $12 a week and telling each recurrence In unemployment may prove to be to spend his or her $2 on candy or movies or the added misery which breaks the endurance ornaments or whatever else seemed most at.

of the British people. If the need for austerity tractive. There is only one real question In ceases to be accepted by the people, It will be a these countries: Whether government plapning grievous temptation to the British Conserve- is going to be done democratically. In accordance three to abandon their present policy of unhappy with the will of the people, or Is going to be done collaboration with the government. If the op- in a totalitarian manner.

And in many coun. position should raise the kind of outcry against tries, the strongest voices today are those of the the government which the Republicans raised Communists and of the knaves, as your car. against Roosevelt, and if the people should go respondent's friend called the members of the with them, the. job of building a Socialist extreme right, who would like to ward off corn. economy by consent would become impossible.

munism by getting In first with some sort of Finally, it is always necessary to remember totalitarian system of their own. the British are trying to do four things at once. They are rebuilding their country after a devas- The British experiment offers an escape from tating war. They are carrying on normal busi- this dilemma. It may not be attractive to us in They are constructing the new Socialist America but it should be supremely attractive econoirly.

And they are carrying greater de. to other peoples who have no, further choice tense burdens than ever before in their peace- except the totalitarianism oh extreme left or time history. Merely from the standpoint of right The British experiment is Socialist It manpower, the demands are a little greater than Is based on government ptorlyttrtg and control to they can quite meet. For Instance they have provide the most economical use of existIng regained 11004000 of manpower by abolishing all sources. But it is enaphatIcally not totalitarian.

but transitional unemployment But this gain In tact, it will break down very rapidly if it has been almost wholly canceled out by the in- ceases to command majority rapport in Britain. crease in defense forces over prewar totals Thus it II an experiment which free men can which has caused serious COntrOVerrl between attempt wits honor, and can even embark upon Herbert Morrison's planners and the Imperial with enthuallum lui nuurt, thriahmen art war. a ney are carrying on normal our. this dilemma. It may not 'be attractive to us in They are constructing the new Socialist America but it should be supremely attractive econolny.

And they are carrying greater de. to other peoples who have no, further choice tense burdens than ever before in their peace- except the totalitarianism of left or time history. Merely from the standpoint of right The British experiment is SOCillillt It manpower, the demands are a little greater than is based on government ptorlyttrtg and control to they can quite meet. For instance they have provide the most aconomical use of existing re. gained 11004000 of manpower by abolishing all sources.

But it is emphatically not totalitarian. but transitional unemployment But this gain In tact, it will break down very rapidly if it has been almost wholly canceled out by the in- ceases to command majority rapport in Britain. crease in defense forces over prewar totals Thus it is an experiment which tree men can which has caused serious controversy between attempt with honor, and can even embark upon Herbert Morrison's planners and the Imperial with enthusiasm, as many Englishmen are Block, do. Communists the national September Bloci4 attempting "advancing Union," aimed its own American Cornmtmists hand- economy All American- 1 Work- their ex- the of disruption. and the against an not as but for desirous a anxious ttl, The anxious is that the man), more I when 1 country offices in Communists.

ri believe members 1 that the 't I I unions has had 1 how 1 difficult it is to find anyone who is willing to contribute his time and efforts to the 1 dull labor of attending meetings and doing the necessary routine work. The laziness I and indifference of the average man causes him to shy away from too-great participa- I tion in the workaday duties of any organ, ization, whether it is a political party, a 1 'charity or a union; average man "does not want to stick out his neck" alter he has finished his, day's work he wants his time to himself, to putter in the garden, to the movies, or Shoot it game of pool. Emphatically he does not want to commit himself to giving up a number of his evenings each month to listening to the maldng decisions on points that seem to hi rn either obscure or of no consequence, and getting himself appointed to committees -whose work will cut still further into 'his spare time'. Illhis attitude represents opportunity. to the Communists.

They are fanatics, with a zeal that is quasi-religious and singlee minded. -They will do anything and stop at nothing to further the interests of their party. They are the ones who attend meeto ings when others stay away; they will do the 'work-that others don't want to do; they get elected to office because they work know what is going on, are not afraid to speak up', and vote for each other, The consequence is that the Communists have managed to worm their way into a number of Union' and exert an influence out of all proportion to their numbers either in the union or in the country. Whether they could in any circumstances accomplish their purpose is a question. trying to wreck the country it-it-more probable they would wreckthe--unions; like all fanatics theirsingle--rnindedness makes them one-sided and incredibly stupid in certain-directions.

In any event, It is eviZ0 dent that the sincere union leaders are be-Is. ginning to take alarm and recognize the Peril that the Communists represent They have initiated a movement to Oust this danie gerous element from their organization, and the indications are that the movement is likely to grow, rather than subside if the Communists persist in their efforts to provide 'Moscow with an American fifth column. 1 it attacking Stassen abusively. At the Wis-1 Republican convention held some time ago, a letter from Taft was passed 2 around endorsing La Follette because of his hostility to Stassen. The letter did no good, ts Senator Bob's progressivism on domestic matters outweighed even his anti': Stassen virtue, but the incident Is indicative of his international attitude.

However, whatever his defects, he has strong and positive virtues, and his defeat would deprive the American people. of one of their ablest legislators. He represents badly needed leaven in a math of dough that includes fax too many Wileys, Wherrys, Butlers, Welshes, AlcKellers and Bilbos. Those who believe that government must be Progressive rather than static will wish for La Toilettes success even if they dis'; approve heartily of his international views. 1 I Pitts' Commons General Staff.

doing today. In short, the adverse factors bulk large, even If American leadership does not falter, and If one ignores the possibility of a grave the British experiment does not fall, there is no tonal crisis in the next five years. Neverthe- real reason why the future should not be faced less. it isthis correspondent's opinionor hunch with confidence. But if either of these condi.

might be a better wordthat the British expert- tons is not fulfilled, the Western system can ment will be made to work somehow or other. hardly withstand the pressure which the Soviet, From the standpoint ot the United States, lac. system is exerting outwards all along its ing the grim world left by the second world war, den. And then, for tree men, the future will It is vitally important that success should crown be displeasing indeed. rhamor Wawa Loog Emeagh simmer Wammi Loag Emeagh All they stood In the liah queue, thetwo housewives waxed confidential.

91o, I ain't exactly a widow said one presently; "It's like this, dune. Two years ago I sent my husband out for a loaf of bread and he ain't never been back since. Got me fair worried, It has. What would, you do?" "Welt" said the other, thinking hard. "It I was you, I wouldn't wait no longer.

I'd slip out for another loaf." Bolivian Heave-Ho 0 Campaign Launched, Against Deadly Rheumatic Fever The courageous fight which the late President Roosevelt made against infantile paralysis, and the eminent career which he achieved in spite of his to focus public attention and public action on 1 that disease to a remarkable degree. And though the prevention of the disease is still an unsolved mystery, the relief available to Its sufferers is infinitely greater than it was a decade' ago. The campaign against infantile paralysis has Can called attention, in an inverse way, to the comparative lack of public Interest in other, equally serious, much more prevalent diseases. Among these is rhea: matic fever which is the object of intensive research recently begun at Johns Hopkins University. Rheumatic fever is our deadliest killer of children.

It takes more young lives than all other children's diseases 20 times more than are killed by poliomyelitis. It strikes 90 per cent of its victims between the ages of live and seven. The great majority of these 'victims come from families whose food or' housing is Inadequate. But the disease occurs in all strata of society. all sections of the country, and at all seasons.

try, and at all seasons. LS Le 7c 1. re DI A. ill A. Captured Documents Show Link Between Berlin Nazis and Ousted of the Late President Gualberto Villaroel Lacmdag aad Doing Chicago pollee, "open under new manage.

merit." are being required to read an up-to. date police manual in the interests of pub. lie safety. One is reminded of the Ozark farmer's retort to the book agent-who sought to sell him a vcgurne on modern agronomy: "I don't need no book. farmin half as well as I know how right Joursal.

THE SPEEDWELL 'OS. Lads Times-Star) Appearing in a York felony courtfor what purpose. deponent sayeth notLangley Co Byer, onetime concert pianist and now a recluse of long standing In the Harlem fastnesses of Manhattan, attracted attention by his congressgaitered gay nineties appearance. He held it by his sweeping disdain for "new-tangled doctor nonsense" and such modern gadgets as as ranges and electric lights. But what he really brought with him from the Langley-mansion refuge wits news of the Speedwell.

"We expl ained, "were aboard- the SpeadwelL It set sail-for Plymouth several days before the Mayflower. But the skipper of the Mayflower managed to get up wind and steal our speed. This got the Mayflower in all the history books. An unfair trick, I maintain, He's on the right track, though a bit to windward. The unfairness lies not in any suerior seamanship of the Mayflower's skipper.

but in history's treacherous habit of recognizing only firsts, to the exclusion of the seconds and the thirds and the also-rans. There, Mr. Collyer, there's the real rub. For this world is filled with Speedwells. They are the tight IthiPs, well manned, that somehow catch a calm Instead of a breeze and then must go forever without a single society of descendants named after them.

They are the perpetual vice-presidents. They are those who must moan that they are always a bridetsmakt never a bride. Come. Mr. Collyer a proposal.

Lets sit us down to an organization for glorification of the second-bests. a right honorable Society of the Speedwells. Coaapiete41 the Deal "You know, old man." said fellow's too smart for me. Do you know what he did?" "No," said Green. "What?" "Well, he sold me a plot of land that was two feet under water.

I went around and demanited my money back. "Did you get it?" "Get nothing! He sold me a motor boat!" 1 as Nazi-sympathizing MI to Leeks Ms Success By PETER EDSON did his plotting with the NW Argentine. The Nazi master-mind were so smart, though. that whe WASHINGTON (NSA) Thil there. U.S.

end other American republics Belmont principal represent. the revolution succeeded it wo are withholding recognition from tive in South America was Dion- announced that the revolution ha the new Bolivian gOVratnent IOT MO Folanini, a minister of mines been necessary because the Unite the tittle being. The Bolivian army in the Bolivian cabinet In 1901. States had lost confidence In tb and police have kept their hands Together, they planned a real Nazi mobility of the overthrown Bolivia out of this revolution. for a change.

Putsch as a means of taking over government to carry out its ws It's not yet known whether or not BOWS in 1941. It failed, and commitments. That way. the Ill the new government MU be strong Foianini took refuge In the Ar- was blamed for the revolution an enough to preserve law and order gentine. Folanini's link to Berlin Germany and the Argentine stayi and to last.

was Johannes Becker, head of the in the background. 'Nazi SS for all of South America But the plot WWI that as soon a From the U.S. point.of view, this Bolivian uprising of teachers, stu. and a great pal of Col. 3uan Germany won the war.

a Naz eron's. dents, end workers is almost too sympathizing government woul good to be true. It has Latin Amer. After the 1941 plot fell through. be set up in La Paz.

Meantim Lean diplomats and politicians Belmonte could not return to Bolivia was to play along as worried. Bolivia. The Germans put him on good neighbor of the Allies. This was something new in South their pry roll at 20.000 marks a Belnionte dreamed of returnir American revolts. Instead of guns year.

to Bolivia to become the loo Merely being shot off into the air, In 1943 Folanint advised Bel. fUehrtr. He tried to get the C. people actually were killeda using German secret cables, mans to fly tarn home, but he hi couple hundred of them. And Pre- that the time was ripe for another no luck In doing so.

although 1 ldent Gaulberto Villaroel Wel putsch. Victor Pas Estenssoro, 1944 he got far as Spain. hung from a lamp poet, Mussolini Bolivian Minister of Finance and in Phony elections last Mi style. leader of the MNR (National Rive- Balmonta was actually alactad lutiontery Movement party), and tha Bolivian Ha is at The WU against the government Gen. Angel Rodriguez of Bel- in Spain, enjoying diplomatic ir the late President Villaroel Is monte's army clique were the monity.

complete. It is documented by rec. leaders. Presiden; Farrell of the This is the government whl; ords of the German Foreign Omen, Argentine and Col. Juan Peron are the Bolivian people have throe captured by U.S.

troops in Berlin. shown by German Foreign Offlce out. This uprising is the first hop These 'records show, direct links records to have had full knowledge. ful sign that, left to their oe between the Nazis and the ousted devices and without outside Int' Bolivian government The The plan was that the new ference, Latin American poopi real villain in the piece is one Maj. Nrsi.Bolivian governznent would will ultimately give the old beav Elias Ho was Bolivian enter into the Fascist bloc of South ho to all Fascist dictators.

Military attache la Berlin, and he American countries headed by the Argentine papers please copy. 4 Argentine. The Nazi rnaster-mindel wrs go smart, though. that when the revolution succeeded it was announced that the revolution had been necessary because the United States had lost confidence In the of the overthrown Bolivian government to carry out its war commitments. That way.

the U.S wes blamed for the revolution and Germany and the Argentine stayed in the background. But the plot was that as soon Germany won the war. a government would be set up in La Pas. Meantime. Bolivia was to play along as good neighbor of the Allies.

Belmont dreamed of TellingZIS to Bolivia to become the local ifulthrer. Re tried to get the GerItnans to fly him home, but he had no luck In doing so. although 1944 he got as far as Spain. In phony elections last May Belmont was actually elected the Bolivian Congress. Ile is still In Spain, enjoying diplomatic Immunity.

This is the government which the Bolivisin people have thrown out. This uprising is the first hopeful sign tient, left to their own devices. and without outside interference, Latin American peoples will ultimately give the Old heave 't 1 As the young lovers lingered In the light, he asked anxiously: Unit. have your people agreed to lour Illarrillge T4 Not yet, 1 the girl replied, as she nestled close to him. "Father hasn't said anythIng and mother's waiting to contradict Recruiting for the armed is reported to be going ahead at a pretty lively rate.

Probably a lot of young fellows have discovered that being a civilian is a luxury they cannot afford at this the.Howard Btubaker in The New Yorker. I Not too much is known about rheumatic fever. It is thought to be "set off" by an infection, probably streptococcic. It usual ly goes through three stages. 1 The first may exhibit the symptoms of a common cold.

The second, some Weeks later, may be marked by fever.and swollen and painful joints and muscles. In the third 3 stage, involvement of the heart is evident The medical profession is confronted with a number of problems in its effort to combat rheumatic fever, There is an inimediate need to improve and increase its'-akearly Li recognition. for it is difficult of diaviosits Since tho United States la several jumps ahead of tho Russians In the development of the atomic bomb. let us keep ahead. Joe Stalin is the type who mistakes another nation's kindness for 3ustice George W.

Maxey of Pennsylvania Supremo Des perate First sign of a break in the Solid South is this advertisement in a Florida newspaper: "Notice Democrats- tin leis I can tau4 a place for my family to live by election time. I will vote Republican so help melmVtis Week- The docility of certain portions of the Aigentine populace becomes more readily understandable when it is learned that one can get a beefsteak dinner there for .20 Scitmco Monitor. 1 A 1" A 17 0 a.

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